Zeina Hashem Beck
Zeina Hashem Beck is a Lebanese poet, living in Dubai. Her writing covers a variety of topics such as Arab culture, home, exile, family narratives, language, identity, female voices and religion. Zeina’s poetry often portray the intersections of the personal and the political, the divine and the profane, the self and the other.
Her second full-length collection of poems ‘Louder than Hearts’won the 2016 May Sarton New Hampshire Poetry Prize. Zeina is the author of two chapbooks: ‘3arabi Song’ – Winner of the 2016 Rattle Chapbook Prize, and ‘There Was and How Much There Was’, a Smith Door Top Laureate’s Choice, selected by Carol Ann Duffy. Her first book, To Live in Autumn won the 2013 Backwaters Prize.
Zeina’s work won The Best of the Net and has been nominated for the Pushcart and the Forward Prize. It has appeared in Ploughshares, Poetry, the Academy of American Poets and World Literature Today, amongst others. Her poem, ‘Maqam’, won the Poetry Magazine’s 2017 Frederick Bock Prize.
Zeina has founded and hosts a Dubai-based open mic night called PUNCH.
Website – www.zeinahashembeck.com